Teaching Chinese Fruit Words with real fruits! This is a set of high frequency words and expressions that are often used. Enjoy the video and the activity bank! You may also enjoy Introduce Chinese to Children Through Songs. Level: novice Ages: young learners and above Key items: fruit words Teaching Chinese fruit words is a lot of fun. Kids always get so excited when I bring real fruits to the classroom. What a yummy fruit words show-and-tell!
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Chinese Through Story features Earth Day! What Earth Day activities are there for your kids to try? What can you do to protect our Earth as a family, a community, class or school? There are a lot of fun ways to celebrate Earth Day and generate ideas of how to protect our environment through discussion and a walk around a neighborhood. For example, one fourth grade class at my local school made a “water hero” statue
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Teach Chinese through pictures uses fun images and audio to introduce a carefully selected high frequency phrases and sentences that learners can use every day. See it, touch it, and say it! I designed Picture Chinese program to go with outdoor or hands-on activities. Students learn best with a combination of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic approach. You may also want to read Teach Chinese through Songs. “We found our students were completely engaged in class when they
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Teach Chinese Through Songs: Sing, Rap, Speak Chinese! Teaching Children Chinese Language with Songs and Movement. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. -Plato Singing is a joyful way of learning and an effective way to teach languages to children of all ages. Teach Chinese through songs is a playful experience for children and adults. As I repeatedly stress the importance of setting up a target language print-rich
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Sing to Learn Chinese Sorry my Chinese is not so good by Transition Band is a featured song for the Sing to Learn Chinese series. The band members speak very good Chinese actually. They share their Chinese language journey with this fun and lovely song “Sorry my Chinese it no so good.” It is a lot of much fun to learn this song. After you are familiar or master the original lyrics you can replace some of
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Chinese Color Words Happy Easter Spring is a fun time to learn or review the Chinese color words! Have you dyed some Easter eggs? How about an Easter egg hunt? Do you know all the colors of the jelly beans? How about making colorful cupcakes or cake pops? Have a fun and sweet time learning and playing with all the color words. When we dye Easter eggs, we can say the names of each color. What colors
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This post has affiliate links, thank you for your support. Raising Bilingual Children: Be Strong and Be Joyful. We’ve all heard the adage “hindsight is 20/20.” Looking back on the early days of when we first set out on our family language-learning journey reveals to me how important it is to change things up and to remain flexible with how we approach the process. It’s sometimes easy to forget during rough patches, but I have learned that
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Raising bilingual children in Chinese There are many parents who are raising bilingual children in Chinese and English. As they are on this bilingual journey they share their own family experiences and resources with fellow parents. It takes a village to raise a child and it takes “two” villages to raise a bilingual child as some may say. It is wonderful to see the community of raising bilingual children keeps growing. I want to share four
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Welcome to the HOW TO COACH GIRLS book launch blog tour & book review! I am so thrilled to share this fantastic new book with you, HOW TO COACH GIRLS by Mia Wenjen and Alison Foley. As I am teaching languages to children I have the role as a language coach who wants to keep the kids going and learning! But, how to do that in sports with the girls? HOW
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Chinese Animation Movies for Families Chinese Animation Movies for Kids Top Chinese Animation for Families Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Movie for Kids List Chinese animation films for kids is featuring 10+ Chinese animations that children and families will enjoy. This list of movies serves the purpose of exploring the Chinese language and culture. It is also a movie resource for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is entertainment with a meaningful and educational goal. Who likes
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